Monster of the Day

So Friday's Watch Party, which was typically delightful, featured The Slime People. It's a slog, written, directed and starring Robert Hutton, for the first hour, livened only when they hide out in a real butcher shop and we get to see what meat cost back in the day. Less than now, in case your…

After Samson vs the Vampire Women we watched Voyage of the Rock Aliens with Pia Zadora. It's one of those goofy, free from everything and the kitchen sink sort of affairs, and I don't remember anything about it. Think of a 90 minutes '80s music video and you're basically there. There might have been…

So..Chad and Chad (the Rev) attended real B-Fest. The rest of us had decided to do another "Basement Fest" the following weekend. However, Paul and Holly (old friends of mine and our hosts, as their house boasts a fabulous screening room with huge leather recliners) got a request from Julie and Tim. Holly and…

Things ended, not with the traditional giant monster movie (although there had been several of those during the morning), but with a Corman 'classic,' Beast of Haunted Cave. Of course, the economical Corman later remade the film as Creature of the Haunted Sea, made briefly famous when it's monster appeared in the opening for…

They didn't have an actual Godzilla movie, but they had an episode (or more?) of the old Hanna-Babera Godzilla series. Yes, yes, the one with Godzookie, the Scrappy Doo of the Godzilla world. Here Godzilla fought the Fire Bird. Sounds fun, I wouldn't mind seeing more of this in the future. I mean, a…

After Return to Oz the '80s streak continued with Skatetown USA, which the Chads rather liked, I believe. Then came the film Chad R sponsored (although he gave me credit, grafting my head on a cartoon admiral; take that, Cap'n Crunch). He went super old school and showed The Giant Claw, because, hey, it's…

Return of Dr X (in no way a sequel to Dr. X) led to Showdown in Little Tokyo. I remember not liking it much way back in the day--maybe because of the constant jokes about how big Dolph Lundgren's dick was--but the Chads gave it very high marks, so you might want to give…

Great B-Fest line-up (all the youngsters stayed away because of, presumably, the 'Rona, so no huge percentage of recent films, as they were picked by the old far contingent of the traditional audience). Brain that Wouldn't Die was followed by Master of the Flying Guillotine (great choice), Firewalker, the perennial Plan 9 from Outer…

  Rock raised a valid point; is Jan in the Pan a monster? I think she falls under the "would eight year-old Ken think it's a monster" rule. However, she is clearly more victim than monster in any case. Not so for this nauseating spectacle. I have to admit, I will never really like…

OK, I'm more or less recovered from having guests in (in various and ever changing amounts) for 12 days straight, two 24 hour events on back to back weekends, having my sleep schedule, such as it is, heavily disrupted, and then having to return to waking up at 3:30 AM when I returned to…